That's the funny thing about Capitalism... wait for it... the market decides what the price should be.
No it doesn't -- at least not in any fair and objective way.
Prices more often than not get determined by what the vendor is willing to sell it for, and with groups of vendors getting together to decide on a common price.
'The Market' isn't some vehicle which achieves perfect outcomes based on fair measures. It gets tinkered with and manipulated to make some of the players rich.
But, you know, let's clamor and argue for the defunding and dissolution of the UN right up until it benefits us personally.
Coming from him, this is irony beyond irony as he's one of the loudest opponents of them.
Unfortunately, both the UN and NAFTA tend to be things that people are in favor of for one purpose, and actively against for another purpose. Corn and steel subsidies for example. When other countries have them, it's unfair competition; when America has them they're vital to national interests. So the message is "whatever works best for us".
They let someone wearing a simple Casio watch into a high-security environment?
Crap, I have several Casio watches... apparently that makes me a security risk.
I mean, they're rugged durable watches, especially a G-Shock -- nobody would ever want one as a time piece they don't worry about breaking or anything, right?
If people are being arrested and detained based on owning a Casio watch, that's kinda scary. Because when I travel I usually have about 4 or 5 of them.
And since this involves 2 former presidents and their families, you can bet it will be the secret service and other high profile agencies looking into this.
He'd better be damned good to avoid the full wrath of the agencies which are going to be all over this.
They might even take time out of enforcing copyright for this.;-)
Generally.. if you have a corp that spews shit about other corp... its not because of you, your freedom, honesty, justice.. or whatever. It's strategy.
Really? And here I thought they were doing it just for lil' old me.
MS is just trying to scare dumb people (aka "the public") for their own interests.
Which is a pretty stupid strategy when all Google has to say is "You do realize Microsoft is doing this too and are just scare-mongering, right? They're reading your email too."
This is like Bernie Madoff making sure we all know about someone else's Ponzi scheme.
Columbia House did this years ago. I know many people get their oil or propane delivered regularly. TFS points out the milkman. Newspapers have been delivered for a long time.
This is a business process, not an invention from what I can tell.
Yet another patent which is a "system and methodology for doing something we've been doing for decades, but with a computer".
Cool story. Meanwhile, even here in 2013, our company started in 1996 is still selling new Flash-based learning courses to companies and government agencies worldwide, and they're still ordering new ones.
Yup, and it's products like yours why I periodically have go open up the browser of insecurity (IE) to access because it's the only one what has Flash enabled. Usually 2-3 times per year some company-mandatory crap needs it.
But for day to day use? Flash is disabled or just simply not installed because I have no trust in it, and it mostly is used for annoying ads. I periodically hit a site which requires Flash for any navigation -- those sites get a back button and never visited again.
I block Flash ads as well, but it's completely myopic to suggest that they don't provide "value" for website owners.
Yeah, but is it of value to users? It isn't for me, and I'm not here to provide value for website owners. As a user, requirement for flash means the back button.
Flash is used for adverts because it works. Deal with it.
Flash gets blocked/not even installed by me an other users because it's crap. Deal with it.
I'm not going to allow Flash ads for any reason -- and if the only thing of value is for ads, that pretty much is what I already thought.
For video, I've yet to see a HTML5 player that works as well as Flash
Maybe it's my age showing, but the number of times I feel like I want to watch a video on the internet is vanishingly small. As in, I have no idea the last time I cared enough to watch a video on the internet. Same for games.
I don't give a rats ass if other people want to run Flash -- run wild, it's your computer. But I'd be hard pressed to name a single thing that has ever made me think "gee, I've been missing out by not having Flash".
Which is part of the problem... Fox shills for the corporations, and CNN shills for the Republicans.
During most of the Iraq, er, conflict, CNN was blindly parroting everything the administration saying without any criticism. Only years later did they start having any form of balance in their coverage.
I haven't taken Fox seriously as a news source in years -- Rupert has it so heavily skewed it isn't funny.
The number of intended users is not now, and never has been, part of the definition of "personal" in PC.
Which is blatantly wrong, because the number of intended users has ever been the defining part of "personal" in PC
So, my 486 running Linux in 1993 which would allow someone to telnet into it while I was at the console wasn't a personal computer?
It was a PC when I bought it. It was a PC when I installed Linux on it. When did it cease to be a PC and become a server? When it was powered off was it a PC but running Linux it was a server? Was it still a PC if I was the only one using it? If I booted into DOS from floppy did it become a PC again?
I don't think anyone would claim that its not a computer. we are claiming it isn't a traditional PC.
What the fuck is a 'traditional' PC? Runs MS-DOS? Has only 640K of memory? Has floppy drives? Comes in a beige box? Has no multi-tasking? Runs Office?
You guys are using a rolling target to define what is a PC in this case, and making sure that no matter how it's interpreted it can't be a "PC" (whatever the fuck that's supposed to mean).
You guys are defining PC as "what we want it to mean", and I'm trying to say that, objectively, a tablet is a personal computer by any meaningful definition.
The fact that over time people have come to believe PC has only ever meant IBM compatible architectures and their derivatives is meaningless, since there were things we called "personal computers" before IBM ever released that.
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No it doesn't -- at least not in any fair and objective way.
Prices more often than not get determined by what the vendor is willing to sell it for, and with groups of vendors getting together to decide on a common price.
'The Market' isn't some vehicle which achieves perfect outcomes based on fair measures. It gets tinkered with and manipulated to make some of the players rich.
Coming from him, this is irony beyond irony as he's one of the loudest opponents of them.
Unfortunately, both the UN and NAFTA tend to be things that people are in favor of for one purpose, and actively against for another purpose. Corn and steel subsidies for example. When other countries have them, it's unfair competition; when America has them they're vital to national interests. So the message is "whatever works best for us".
Crap, I have several Casio watches ... apparently that makes me a security risk.
I mean, they're rugged durable watches, especially a G-Shock -- nobody would ever want one as a time piece they don't worry about breaking or anything, right?
If people are being arrested and detained based on owning a Casio watch, that's kinda scary. Because when I travel I usually have about 4 or 5 of them.
There's really only one side in this case -- there is no scientifically credible evidence to the contrary of evolution.
Everything else is wishful thinking.
And since this involves 2 former presidents and their families, you can bet it will be the secret service and other high profile agencies looking into this.
He'd better be damned good to avoid the full wrath of the agencies which are going to be all over this.
They might even take time out of enforcing copyright for this. ;-)
Yeah, but is this a "new method of doing business" -- or an old way of doing business, but with a computer?
I'm not getting a whole lot of "new method" out of that.
Aww, how sweet ... that's the nicest thing anybody has said to me all week.
But ... it's all I've got.
Seriously AC, go stick your penis in your ear. Or your rear if you're into that sort of thing.
Wow, sorry to hear you need diapers, but glad you have the courage to admit it. ;-)
But seriously, automated, recurring delivery is decades old, possibly more. How this could even be patented is beyond me.
Really? And here I thought they were doing it just for lil' old me.
Which is a pretty stupid strategy when all Google has to say is "You do realize Microsoft is doing this too and are just scare-mongering, right? They're reading your email too."
This is like Bernie Madoff making sure we all know about someone else's Ponzi scheme.
Columbia House did this years ago. I know many people get their oil or propane delivered regularly. TFS points out the milkman. Newspapers have been delivered for a long time.
This is a business process, not an invention from what I can tell.
Yet another patent which is a "system and methodology for doing something we've been doing for decades, but with a computer".
Epic fail to the USPTO.
Yup, and it's products like yours why I periodically have go open up the browser of insecurity (IE) to access because it's the only one what has Flash enabled. Usually 2-3 times per year some company-mandatory crap needs it.
But for day to day use? Flash is disabled or just simply not installed because I have no trust in it, and it mostly is used for annoying ads. I periodically hit a site which requires Flash for any navigation -- those sites get a back button and never visited again.
Yeah, but is it of value to users? It isn't for me, and I'm not here to provide value for website owners. As a user, requirement for flash means the back button.
Flash gets blocked/not even installed by me an other users because it's crap. Deal with it.
I'm not going to allow Flash ads for any reason -- and if the only thing of value is for ads, that pretty much is what I already thought.
Maybe it's my age showing, but the number of times I feel like I want to watch a video on the internet is vanishingly small. As in, I have no idea the last time I cared enough to watch a video on the internet. Same for games.
I don't give a rats ass if other people want to run Flash -- run wild, it's your computer. But I'd be hard pressed to name a single thing that has ever made me think "gee, I've been missing out by not having Flash".
Oddly enough, it was only ever Microsoft who decided they'd just blindly run anything in an email attachment.
Can you tell us what that is?
For me, Flash has never provided anything of value -- just ads and badly written web sites is my opinion of it. I think Flash is crap.
Or, don't even run it. Flash has been a security and privacy hole for a decade or more.
I refuse to install it except on work machines where I periodically have to use it for something I can't avoid.
Yet another exploit? I'd like to say I'm shocked, but that would be a lie.
Your ID isn't low enough to know this ... but that's how it works around here. And nobody actually reads the articles. ;-)
Are we meant to believe Bing isn't crawling Hotmail?
Some people are into legs and feet. Rule 34 and all.
Oh we can explain it ... we're just not gonna tell you. :-P
So the universe is communist? It's scattered literally billions of these potential free energy sources around.
Surely it owes someone royalties or something, how are we supposed to monetize a universe which provides all of this free stuff?
Which is part of the problem ... Fox shills for the corporations, and CNN shills for the Republicans.
During most of the Iraq, er, conflict, CNN was blindly parroting everything the administration saying without any criticism. Only years later did they start having any form of balance in their coverage.
I haven't taken Fox seriously as a news source in years -- Rupert has it so heavily skewed it isn't funny.
Well, IKEA had beaten them to dershakenpen, so they had to go with that.
It's Slashdot you buffoone. ;-)
No, that's plagiarism. Real work is much more complex. :-P
So, my 486 running Linux in 1993 which would allow someone to telnet into it while I was at the console wasn't a personal computer?
It was a PC when I bought it. It was a PC when I installed Linux on it. When did it cease to be a PC and become a server? When it was powered off was it a PC but running Linux it was a server? Was it still a PC if I was the only one using it? If I booted into DOS from floppy did it become a PC again?
What the fuck is a 'traditional' PC? Runs MS-DOS? Has only 640K of memory? Has floppy drives? Comes in a beige box? Has no multi-tasking? Runs Office?
You guys are using a rolling target to define what is a PC in this case, and making sure that no matter how it's interpreted it can't be a "PC" (whatever the fuck that's supposed to mean).
You guys are defining PC as "what we want it to mean", and I'm trying to say that, objectively, a tablet is a personal computer by any meaningful definition.
The fact that over time people have come to believe PC has only ever meant IBM compatible architectures and their derivatives is meaningless, since there were things we called "personal computers" before IBM ever released that.